Under Construction – Can I ask a favor?

If you got an email from me about this new post, would you please try to click the email link and see if it takes you to my website. If it doesn’t work, please reply to the email & let me know, along with your device/browser info.  – Thanks.

Just as the pandemic had locked us in place by mid-March, I began working on some website issues. One of those issues was updating a website plugin that sends an email to subscribers to let them know a new post or content has been added to my website. Sadly, after my last blog post, I got a number of folks letting me know they couldn’t click on the link to go to my blog post. A few reported an error saying they were blocked or that nothing happened.

If you got the email and you WERE ABLE to click the link and get to the website blog post, please take just a moment to reply to that notification email with the word “WORKED” – along with your device and browser info.

Your help with this is hugely appreciated. Since I have fairly limited technology skills, I’ve done just about all the troubleshooting I can do on my own. If there continue to be problems with folks not being able to access the email link, I’ll need to hire some support to resolve the issue.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Also, if you just happen to wind up here through some other route, please feel free to go ahead and subscribe to my blog post updates as well, since I’ll have a bunch of new material coming soon.  🙂

Thank you in advance for your help. ~ Gary.

*Photo Tip:

Photo: (Above) Caterpillar Motor Paver tractor in front of the Alabama Hills, Inyo County, Eastern Sierra, California

Often as a scenic landscape or travel photographer, we tend to dismiss subjects that aren’t up to our expectations of an attractive scene we want to portray. However, I’ve found that sometimes it pays to go ahead and shoot those ‘uglier’ scenes anyway. You just don’t know when it will become a perfect story-telling image.

On this particular morning, a friend and I had been shooting the sunrise in the Alabama Hills of the Eastern Sierra. We were treated to some very nice conditions as we aimed our cameras toward the mountain. When I got back to my truck, I noticed the first bit of sunlight coming over the ridge behind us and hitting this construction road grader. As an instinct developed through years — and handed down to me by my old boss — I keep a mantra in mind that says: “If it looks good, shoot it.” It doesn’t matter what “*IT* is. (repeat mantra). If some special light or other condition is making something ordinary or even ugly stand out, go ahead take the picture.

BTW: The follow up to this mantra is: “If it looks better, shoot it again.”

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Gary Crabbe is an award-winning commercial and editorial outdoor travel photographer and author based out of the San Francisco Bay Area, California. He has seven published books on California to his credit, including “Photographing California; v1-North”, which won the prestigious 2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal Award as Best Regional title. His client and publication credits include the National Geographic Society, the New York Times, Forbes Magazine, TIME, The North Face, Subaru, L.L. Bean, Victoria’s Secret, Sunset Magazine, The Nature Conservancy, and many more. In 2018, The USPS selected a nearly-unprecedented seven of Gary’s photographs to become U.S. Postage ‘Forever’ Stamps as part of the O Beautiful collection. Gary is also a photography instructor and consultant, offering both public and private photo workshops, as well as being a professional Photo Editor and Content Creator.

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